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5-Letter Words Starting with GLO

There are 10 five-letter words that start with GLO on Word.ws, from gloat to glowy. The most common are glory, globe, glove, gloss and gloom.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 10 five-letter words that start with GLO

  • gloat6v. To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of...
  • globe8n. The eyeball.
  • glock12n. A glockenspiel.
  • gloom8n. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
  • gloop8n. Any gooey, viscous substance.
  • glore6v. To glow, shine.
  • glory9n. Great beauty and splendor.
  • gloss6n. A surface shine or luster.
  • glove9n. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but...
  • glowy12adj. Glowing.
13 rare five-letter words that start with GLO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with GLO are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with GLO, plus 13 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with GLO?
glory, globe, glove, gloss, gloom, glock, gloat and glowy.
Which of the five-letter words that start with GLO has the highest letter score?
glowy scores 12 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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